Bill Roth

Bill Roth is a Partner of Pine River Capital Management. Bill joined Pine River in June 2009 to co-manage the mortgage-focused Pine River Fixed Income Fund through the end of 2010. He helped launch the mortgage REIT Two Harbors Investment Corp., serving initially as co-CIO, and then as CIO from 2013 through 2019, when he retired. Bill moved back to the hedge fund side in 2020 following the extreme dislocations in the mortgage market and will focus on relative value agency mortgage trading. Prior to joining Pine River in 2009, Bill was at Citigroup and its predecessor, Salomon Brothers, for 28 years where he was named a Director in 1987 and a Managing Director in 1997. From 2004 to 2009 Bill managed a proprietary trading book at Citigroup with a focus on mortgage and asset-backed securities. From 1994 to 2004, Bill was part of the Salomon/Citi New York mortgage sales department. From 1981 to 1994, Bill managed the Chicago financial institutions sales group for Salomon. He received an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business in 1981 and a BS in Finance and Economics from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1979.